Jews
on Christmas
There
isn’t enough soy sauce in the world to feed
Jews
on Christmas
Huddled
around steaming plates of dumplings
Discussing
cinematography
Angioplasty
Lactaid
Who
has lived and who has died
Shocked
to hear that the hot new Hollywood star is actually half-Jewish
(and
not arguing which half)
I
don’t see what all the fuss is about Nathan Englander.
Yes,
it’s like The Wire, but different,
Costco
is a mixed blessing,
Do
you trust Yelp?
On
our smartphones we subtract the Chinese year from the Jewish year to see how
long the Jews had to wait to try egg drop soup.
The
laughter of Jews on Christmas
shakes
the jade Buddha under the faux waterfall from his
sleepy serenity
sleepy serenity
And
for a moment, the enlightened one opens his eyes,
smiling
contently as he joins us to look at pictures of relatives at Harry Potter world.
Now
he's Jewish too.
The
Moo Shu comes with little tortillas, pancakes, wraps,
whatever you want to call them.
whatever you want to call them.
And
we wrap up the mush of last year, with all of it’s regrets and tzuris,
And
immerse into soy sauce,
a
ritual bath,
three
times dipped,
and
we say – this is not bad.
Our
highest compliment.
- Daniel S. Brenner
